Apple
has joined the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society as a founding
member, taking its place alongside Amazon, Facebook, Google/DeepMind, IBM, and
Microsoft. The nonprofit organization, established last fall, is working to
advance public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), develop best
practices to deal with the challenges and opportunities presented by the
technology, and conduct and openly publish research on it.
Education
is one of the major sectors that will feel the impact of advances in artificial
intelligence, according to a report released by the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy last October. “An AI-enabled world demands a
data-literate citizenry that is able to read, use, interpret, and communicate
about data, and participate in policy debates about matters affected by AI,” it
said.
